Best 132 quotes in «anxious quotes» category

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

It was a film that I knew, that I had seen, that I was familiar with, but I wasn't anxious about it at any point during the screening. I snoozed twice, and this is something I couldn't have imagined that I would feel detached, as I did with this film [Certified Copy].

I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.

I used to think that the times when you don't work, you should be anxious and constantly by the phone and putting so much pressure on yourself, but I've really learned that all the experiences we have you can bring into the next job. So it's making sure your brain and body are being stimulated so you can bring something new to the next role.

I've been a little haphazard about how nude I get, and the only thing that keeps me from getting anxious about it is that I've had complete control over it.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Life's too short for anxious score-keeping

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation

My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.

The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux.

The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you." I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

There's Pam watching anxiously. She doesn't look anxious though.

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.

Time flies when you are anxious!

The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything.

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.

We're not anxious to play L.S.U. again.

We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.

We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.

Being in love is…anxious,” he said. “Wanting to please, worrying that she will see me as I really am. But wanting to be known. That is…you’re naked, moaning in the dark, no dignity at all…I wanted her to see me and to love me even though she knew everything I am, and I knew her

Be thankful when you find yourself worrying about the smallest things, for it often means there aren't any bigger things to truly worry about.

Depression is like a never ending roller coaster ride, there’s times of highs and lows, going slow, going fast, screaming, anxious feelings, scared thoughts, trying to get off the ride but it’s so hard, you can’t.

Don’t worry. Cast your anxieties upon the Lord!

Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.

You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.

You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.